John and Amy followed Miles to the room where the chip was kept. The males turned the keys simultaneously, opening the door. The room was dark, but the open door left just enough light for them to see. Pressing two panels on the wall inside the room, two sections opened. Behind one section was the chip in a case and the other had a mechanical arm held in a glass capsule. Miles grabbed the chip before pointed for John to get the arm.
"All right now, in order to get that out you have to just ..."
The boy only swept the capsule off of its stand and the glass shattered into pieces. He then grabbed the chip and threw it on the ground as well, opening the case. Amy laughed at the look on John's face.
"He's just like his mother sometimes," she commented as John swooped down to pick up the arm and the chip.
"Charming," Miles replied.
"We got Skynet by the balls now, don't we?" John smirked, stashing the chip in his jacket pocket," Come on, let's book."
They made it back to the room where Sarah was in almost no time at all.
"Ready to rock?" John asked, raising the arm in the air.
"Ready."
As the Terminator came back in, Amy shoved the arm into John's backpack.
"Time to go. Now," he announced.
Sarah grabbed two masks and shoved them at the teenagers.
"Take this. They'll use gas."
John led Amy and the Terminator back out of the room.
"Get started on the door," Sarah continued," Miles, hand me the detonator."
They had just turned the corner when they heard guns going off. John turned to go back, but the Terminator grabbed him. They made their way back to the room with the security cameras to see what was going on. They saw Sarah stuck in a room while Miles was in no position to move as he had been shot multiple times.
"Shit! She's in the clean room. There's no way outta there," John told them.
The two teenagers were astounded as the Terminator went straight through the wall behind him and grabbed Sarah, pulling her into the security room. The Terminator pulled out his blaster gun again, so Sarah grabbed the kids and told them to get down, shielding them from the blast. They followed after the Terminator afterwards. They had made it a little ways down the elevator when the explosion went off that they had set up. Miles had let them get far enough away before he had died. When the elevator reached the ground floor, those guarding the lobby threw a gas grenade. John and his mom shared as mask while John forced Amy's onto her face. The Terminator then moved out to take care of the threat. Sarah was keeping a lookout for the Terminator, which came in the form of a stolen van which he crashed through the door and turned for them to get in. Once in the van, Sarah shouted for him to go. As soon as they were off, Sarah pushed Amy and John to a side and covered them in bulletproof vests. It was awkward as Amy was shoved between John's legs with her back pressed up against his chest.
"No matter what happens, you stay under these vests. You got it?" Sarah told John.
"Yeah," he replied.
Sarah kissed him on the cheek. She hesitated and gave Amy a quick kiss on the head before covering their heads with vests. Amy was surprised, but John was happy, something he let her know by squeezing her shoulders with his arms, which he had wrapped around her. They heard Sarah shout that the chopper was coming. Not too long after that, gunshots were heard. John at one point checked to see what was going on but had to pull a vest up again as shots came in again. He covered in time as a few bullets hit the vest making Amy yelp. John's right arm, which was still around her, and his legs tightened, locking her close to him. Sarah shouted for John to stay down. The shooting continued until they heard Sarah shout. John's threw the vest off and shouted. Looking over, they could see she had been shot in the leg. The Terminator suddenly hit the brake on the van and the helicopter slammed straight into the back of the van. With a lurch and screams, Amy and John went tumbling forward over each other and Sarah slammed into the front of the van. The van suddenly tipped and they were sliding on their side. Amy's head slammed into the side of the van and she could feel a searing pain. The van ground to a stop soon enough. Amy groaned but pushed all the random things off of her and moved to find the others. She reached Sarah, who John was trying to help up. Amy helped as well and they followed the Terminator out of the back of the van. A man in a truck had stopped to check on them.
"Are you hurt?" he asked.
They suddenly heard a truck going and looked up to see a huge truck coming their way.
"Holy shit!" John exclaimed," Come on, Mom! Come on!"
John and Amy began moving her toward the truck even before the Terminator asked the guy to borrow it. Sarah made sure the kids went in first and Amy was thrown into the same position as before to save room. Once Sarah was in, the Terminator took off.
"I'm bleeding. Bad," Sarah informed them.
"Keep pressure on it," John said, looking around the truck.
John noticed a shirt by Amy's foot and motioned to it. Amy picked it up and handed it to him.
"Here, see if this will work."
John made it as much of a bandage as he could, then he had Amy tie it around his mother's leg. Sarah looked back through the window.
"He's gaining," she noted.
"Step on it!" John demanded.
"This is the vehicle's top speed," the Terminator replied.
"That's absolute shit," Amy growled.
"I can get out and run faster than this!" John shouted.
The bigger truck slammed into the back of theirs.
"Dammit! That Terminator doesn't give up," Amy shouted.
"Coming up to the right!" Sarah continued.
John shouted again as the T-1000 slammed them at the side this time. They were now stuck between him and the highway railing. He had to back off as a truck came up in front of them. As they moved around, the Terminator turned to Amy.
"Drive for a minute."
"WHAT!" she exclaimed, yet leaned over and took the wheel.
"Where the hell are you going?" John shouted.
The Terminator didn't answer, but just opened the door and, holding onto the roof, stood up and aimed his gun at the T-1000's truck and shot.
"Take the off-ramp!" the Terminator shouted.
Amy turned the wheel quickly to the right. The truck came barreling after them.
"Shit!" John shouted, seeing the turn Amy was about to take over a curb," Hold on!"
They went straight through the gates of a CSI Steel company. The Terminator grabbed his second gun and moved off toward the truck that was now right up against their asses. John looked back and saw that the Terminator had caused the T-1000 to tip the truck, but thought better of telling Amy what was going on as she drove.
"Don't stop!" Sarah told her," Go straight."
"DUCK!" John shouted as they ran straight into a machine.
Amy was tugged to the side by John. When they had stopped, she looked up to see a metal spike where their heads had been moments before. With a whimper, her head dropped onto John's chest.
"Good driving, babe, good driving," he said, patting her head.
Sitting up, they looked out of the back to watch the Terminator shoot the T-1000 that had frozen due to the released liquid nitrogen in the truck it had been driving. John went out to meet the Terminator while Amy helped Sarah out of the car with her hurting leg. John and the Terminator were suddenly by them and rushing them up.
"Come on! We have to get out of here," John shouted.
Turning, the two females could see that the T-1000 was reforming because of the heat from the steel factory. Amy groaned and handed Sarah over to John. The Terminator then grabbed Sarah's other side and the four of them moved off into the factory. The Terminator weaved them between many bits of machinery to get them away from the T-1000. They came to a pit of hot melted metal, but it was too hot so they moved back. The T-1000 was close since they had to turn back. The Terminator stopped.
"Go. Run."
John protested.
"No! We gotta stick together!"
The Terminator turned to him as his mom held him back.
"John, you've got to go now."
"John," Sarah and Amy both said.
"Go. Now!"
"No!"
John fought against them, but they were able to pull him away. They kept moving and climbing up stairs to get as far away as they could. They kept moving, but they wound up running into the T-1000. Turning, Sarah had them go down to a lower floor by a chain. Looking back up, Sarah hadn't followed them, which caused John to shout after her. The conveyor belt they had landed on put her out of sight. Looking around, Amy grabbed John's arm.
"Come on, we have to go."
He followed her pulling. They moved along the bottom floor until they figured they were far enough away, and then went up again. Finding a remote and, hopefully, secluded corner they got down and hid there. The two were drenched in sweat from the heat of the steel mill. The two were exhausted and panting as they leaned against the machine behind them. Amy, still feeling the throbbing in her head from when she hit it, reached up. She hissed and retracted her hand to find blood.
"Lovely," she murmured.
Looking down at her ripped shirt, she tore the bottom half of it and put the green fabric to her head. John looked over and saw her trying to get rid of the blood.
"Here," he whispered, taking the cloth from her and cleaning the wound a bit," Don't worry. It hurts like a bitch, but it's small and isn't bleeding anymore."
"Thanks."
The two of them sat there for awhile. Amy suddenly stood up.
"I shouldn't be hiding with you. You're safer if he thinks I'm with you if I keep moving."
She was about to go, but John grabbed her arm with a muffled shout.
"No! Amy, don't-"
"Shhh."
She turned back and knelt down in front of him, a finger to his lips.
"If you shout he'll hear you. John, you have to let me go-"
"I can't, Amy, I can't!"
A few tears fell from his eyes and he brushed them away.
"You don't have a gun," he pointed out," You're not armed at all. You can't fight him without one. He'll kill you easily; I can't let you do that."
"That's not important. You're important, you have to understand that."
"But you're important to me, Amy. Don't leave me."
He pulled her into his arms and held her tightly, as if she were going to vanish at any moment.
"John, I-"
"JOHN!"
The two of them looked up.
"John. Help!"
John turned around.
"Mom?"
He instantly moved to get up. Amy followed him.
"John, are you sure about this?" she questioned, "Your mom doesn't seem the type to yell for help…"
She went ignored as John moved quickly, trying to find his mother. They appeared to find her, clutching onto a huge hook. They stopped as another Sarah came around the corner with a gun. Looking down, the two noticed that the "Sarah's" shoes were blending into the metal at its feet.
"Get out of the way, you two!" the real Sarah said.
Amy pushed John to the side as he shouted for her to shoot. She kept shooting till the T-1000 almost fell into the hot metal below, but she ran out of bullets. John and Amy ran to Sarah as the T-1000 advanced on them. The turned to run, but saw the Terminator coming up on a wheel with his gun pointed forward.
"Get down," Sarah said, shoving the children down and falling on top of them.
After he shot, they sat up to see the T-1000 very disassembled and screaming a strange high pitch sound before it fell into the hot metal below. When they were sure it was completely melted, then Amy and John ran over to help the Terminator up. His arm had been ripped off and a stake of some sort had gone through its body.
"Holy shit," was all John could say.
"I need a vacation," was the response.
Amy couldn't help but smile as the Terminator moved forward. They all went and looked over the edge.
"Is it dead?" John asked.
"Terminated."
John grabbed his backpack with the arm.
"Will this melt in there?"
"Yes. Throw it in."
John pulled it out of his backpack and tossed it with an "Adios".
"And the chip," the Terminator reminded him.
Rummaging in his shirt pocket, John pulled it out and tossed it in as well.
"It's over," Sarah sighed.
"No. There's one more chip," the Terminator said turning to Sarah.
He pointed to his head. Amy bit her lip.
"And it must be destroyed also."
Turning, he grabbed the control panel to one of the chains.
"Here. I cannot self-terminate. You must lower me into the steel."
John started shouting his protest and the Terminator could only apologize.
"No! No, it'll be okay. Stay with us. It'll be okay."
"I have to go away."
"No, don't do it. Please, don't go."
The Terminator grabbed the chain despite the continuing protests. John even tried ordering him to stay, but it did not work. Tears spilled down John's cheeks as he tried to stop the robot.
"I know now why you cry. But it's something I can never do."
John hugged the Terminator. Amy looked away, trying not to cry herself. The Terminator shook hands with Sarah before motioning for Amy to come close.
"I was ordered to follow your orders as well, but you never ordered me to do anything."
Amy furrowed her eyebrows at him.
"I don't understand. Why would you-?"
"Thank you. For many things. Amy."
The teenage girl could only gape at him and nod.
"S-Sure…"
Stepping onto a hook at the base of the chain, he looked back at them.
"Good-bye."
After he pushed himself away, Sarah pushed the button to lower him into the steel. As he melted, his hand was the last to disappear, making a thumbs up sign to them. When he was gone, Sarah tossed down the control and John collapsed onto her shoulder crying. Eventually, the three made their way out of the steel mill, hand in hand, and moved on to their new life. As a family.
Author's Note: It isn't over yet. Look out for the next few chapters, hopefully in the near future. I'm going to try and put out as many chapters before Spring Break ends. If I'm able to finish it by the end, I'll be astounded, but there is a lot more in store for Amy and John, who now have to deal with more…age-related problems. Thanks for reading and please keep reviewing!